Belt



PATENTED MAY 5, 1908.

A. SSSBLES.

BELT'. APPLIOATION FILED SEPT. 2a. 1907.

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Nro/Mfrs ABRAHAM SUSSELES, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

BELT

specimen-ion of Letters Patent,

Patented May 5, 1908.

Application led September 23. 1907. Serial No. 394,035.

To qll whom 'it may concern:

Be it known that l, ABRAHAM SrssELns, a citizen of the Lmted States, andresiding at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York,haveA invented certain new and useful Improvements in Belts, of

which the following is a specification, such as will enable thoseVskilled in the art to which it appertains to make anduse the same.

This invention relates to belts of the class worn by ladies andgentlemen, and the yobject thereof is this class, and of the form knownas tubular belts, in which the belt is formed from asingle strip ofleather or other suitable material folded longitudinallf.' lopposite soas to bring the side edges thereof together, said edges being'stitchedor otherwise secured together. and the belt being flattened out so thatthe line of stitching b v which the sidel edges of the belt strap aresecured together will be on the inner side of the belt; a further objectbeing to provide a belt of this class in which the opposite sides, orfront 'and back portions, of the belt are secured together without theuse of gumming or sealing material, this result, in my improvement,being accomplished b v parallel rows of stitching which extendlongitudinally of the belt and through the opposite sides or front andhack portions thereof, whereby said opposite sides or front and backportions of the belt are y secured together.

The invention is lowing specification of which the accompanying drawingforms a part, in which the separate parts of in v improvement aredesignated b v suitable reference characters in each of the views, andin which made according to my invention. Fig. 2 an inside view on anenlarged scale of a part of the belt. Fig. 3 a cross section on the line3, 3 Of Fig. and view of a part of'nrviniproved -belt on the same scaleas l and showing additional stitching.

In the practice of my invention l form the belt a from a strip offlexible material, preferablv leather. and this strip is folded longi iy thereof brought together as shown at The edges of the strip ofmaterial are connected by zig Zag or lace stitches t, and at the sametime two parallel rows of stitches b2 are formed which extend entirelythrough the belt orthrough to provide an improved belt of i fullydisclosed in the fol-v Figure 1 is a perspective view of a belt Fig. elaback o r outside i 1 the opposite sides, or the front and back portionsthereof. This operation is performed by means of a particularly designedmachine of well Y known construction and E operation and in practice thesaid machine is provided with a. folder through which the strip ofleather or other material is passed,- and this folder folds the strip,and the said strip is fed through the machine in the operationthereofand the stitches b and b2 are formed ata singleoperation.

'ith my improvement it is unnecessary to l paste the opposite sides ofthe belt together as the parallel rows of stitching b2 Will securelyconnect the opposite sides, or front i, and back portions of the belt,and if suffii ciently stiff, or heavy, material` is employed l the beltwill be given the required firmness. l. In Fig. 4 I have shown a form ofa belt, or i a part thereof in which supplemental lines of l stitchingb3 are employed between the lines i, b2 and the edges of the l belt andthese lines of stitching` b3 vmay to the edges of the belt if desired.

Although I have described my improved belt las formed in a particularlmanner, and by means of a machine so constructed that it will fold thestrip from which the-belt is made and form the stitches?) and b2, myinvention is not necessarily limited to this particular 1 method ofmaking the same, nor' the usel of any particular machine but consists inthe belt made as described and hereinafter claimed.

The belt c, as shown is provided at one end with a. buckle c, and at theopposite side With eyelets d, by which the belt may be secured aroundthe waist, but my invention is not limited to any particular means forconnecting the ends of thebelt, and Suspenders and l other forms ofstraps may be made in the 1 same manner and within the scope of my inivention.

Having fully described my invention, What l claim as new vand desire tosecure by'Letters i, latcntisz l l.. A belt or strap composed of avstrip Vof l flexible material folded longitudinally -to, l bring theside edges together, the meeting' edges beinCr connected by zigzag orlace stitching which extends across the same, and l the front and backportions or oppositesides of the belt being connected adjacent to said linterlocked with said be placed closely adjacent .2 ssegsae terialfolded longitudinally to'l bring the slide side edges thereof and bytvhich the front and edges together, the .meeting edges being conbackportions of the belt are connected. nected by zigzag or lace stitchingwhich ex- In testimony that I claim the foregoing as tends across thesame, and the frontand back my invention I have signed my name in"portions or opposite sides of the belt being presence of thesubscribing Witnesses this 15 connected adjacent to said meeting edges b20th day ofeptember 1907.

parallel rows of stitching interlocked Wit ABRAHAMSUSSELES. said zigzagor lace stitching, said belt being Witnesses:

also provided With supplemental parallel' '0. E. MULREANY;

rows of stitching adjacent to the opposite M. E. DooDY.

